Shanghai Fools_A Novel by Vann Chow

Author:Vann Chow [Chow, Vann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-13T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

I felt like doing something else than being cooped up in my office in front of the computer now that I had finally delivered ThriftyEP. While I certainly still had a lot of work from the rest of Project Dragon One, I really didn't feel like working much more since we made that sale, so I QQ-ed my soccer buddies and organized a game.

It was my first soccer practice since my injury. My arrival was welcomed by a round of applause by my teammates from the Pudong Hero Number 4 team, the oldest amateur team of the club.

My mates were being especially lenient on me during the practice, which led me to make three assists and two goals when the game concluded. That made me feel really good about myself. I hadn't been able to sleep much after 'the yacht thing', weary that the bad guys or the law enforcement people would catch up to us. Physically exhausted after such a long break without doing much exercise, I was hopeful that I could finally get a good night sleep tonight.

Brother Fei came over to pat me on the back while I was lost in thoughts. It landed a bit harder than we both expected on a patch of skin that was still healing from my burning accident. When he saw me flinched in pain, he apologized profusely. "Just sit down for a moment," he suggested.

Everyone gathered around us, all sweaty and exhausted from having played under the unyielding sun to get a sip of water from their water bottles. The wife of Brother Guo, our team captain, came over from the watcher's stand with a box of Chinese donuts covered in melted sugar. I grabbed one unapologetically and received a kind smile from her, which I later found out was a smile of satisfaction for giving her a free pass to inquire into my personal affairs with no qualms.

"I heard that you're living with a woman now from Brother Fei. Why didn't you bring her along?" Women had an incredible nose for romantic story even when it was buried by hideous domestic violence. I gave Brother Fei a look and he returned me the most innocent shrug he could ever manage.

"Maybe some day."

"Don't ask too much. He probably doesn't want to talk about it," Brother Fei hissed back at the captain's wife, thinking back to the strange incident that broke out in our house previously, when I almost killed a guy for sleeping with my 'wife'.

"How much did you tell everyone?" I squinted at him, who shrugged again and swore he said nothing unnecessary.

"She's now in Sichuan," I explained to the inquirer and the curious onlookers. "Preparing for our wedding at the end of the week." It was unseemly for decent Chinese man and woman to live together without any plan of getting married. To prevent unnecessary torrents of moral lectures from all the married couples in the soccer team, especially Brother Guo and his wife who liked to set the example for everything to us 'youngsters', I volunteered that piece of information.

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